SWORD: Cutting Through the Red Tape to Populate Learning Materials Repositories

Sarah Currier, Product Manager for Intrallect Ltd, has written an interesting article that introduces SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) to those interested in sharing, reusing, re-purposing and managing teaching and learning materials. The article provides an overview of the tool, technical details of how SWORD works and four case study vignettes on work that is already under way, which illustrate how it streamlines the process of depositing learning materials into repositories.